JAPAN FIRES WORLD’S LARGEST LASER

Remember that story about Japan wanting to girdle the Moon with microwave collectors and beam power to the Earth? Well, they're also building lasers with huge power output:

The Death Star weapon is here! Japan fires world's most powerful laser to produce energy equal to 1,000 times the planet's power consumption

Now, many of you shared this article with me, and when one reads about the laser, one can see why. Pay close attention to these statements:

'With heated competition in the world to improve the performance of lasers, our goal now is to increase our output to 10 petawatts,' said the institute's Junji Kawanaka, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the university

To put that into context, according to Popular Science, a 50,000 watt laser successfully took down a drone just a mile away.

That 50kW laser was 10 billion times less powerful that the one used in Japan.

Up until today's announcement, the world has only ever witnessed a 1-pettawatt laser created by the University of Texas, Austin.

Not only did the Japanese laser generate twice as much power, but the team says it also has 100 times as much energy as its Texas rival.

Note that a mere 50,000 watt laser was able to shoot down a drone a mile away, presumably without phase conjugation and all the nifty things science has come up with to make lasers more efficient through atmospheric distortion. And, as the article avers, the Japanese laser is "10 billion times" more powerful (drone? What drone?) and has 100 times more energy than a similar laser in Texas.
But, comparisons to Star Wars' death star laser notwithstanding (that laser would be, if real, far more powerful, making the Japanese instrument look like a toy), we can all rest peacefully because the Japanese toy is "mainly of scientific interest rather than having any real-world purpose."
Now I don't know about you, but I have a little difficulty wrapping my mind around the notion that Japanese scientists and technicians are building lasers with huge power and energy outputs just because they want to satisfy the delights and passions for "pure research," for if 50,000 watt lasers can take down drones, even at the paltry distance of one mile, the military potentials for the Japanese toy seem rather obvious. Granted, one cannot put this on a truck and drive it around and shoot down drones. But neither can one put a 16" naval rifle on a truck either. One puts such large military platforms on the platform that their size and operational characeristics demand(and that raises certain questions of its own).
The real question here is really what the Japanese are experimenting with such large lasers for. Mr. Abe's rearmament scheme seems to be an appropriate context from which to view this development. But there are others. Consider carefully, for example, this statement from the beginning of the article:
The power of the 'Death Star'-like beam is equivalent to 1,000 times the world's total electricity consumption, the scientists claim.(Emphasis added)

Now, if you've been following my high octane speculation - particularly that which I suggested at my second talk at last year's Secret Space Program conference in San Mateo, CA - this may have a familiar ring to it. At the conference I suggested that if your national security apparatus suspected that in the UFO phenomenon one was dealing with a type I or type II civilization on the Kardashev scale, then what one would do would be to "leverage" systems of those scales as demonstrations of human capabilities. In Kardashev's scheme, a type one civilization requires the energy output of an entire planet, a type two civilization that of an entire star, and a type three that of an entire galaxy. So, what I was suggesting with my "corollaries" was that one would have to demonstrate a capability to engineer systems of a planetary or stellar scale, and engineering such gargantuan energy outputs as in this laser would be one way to do so. And, as the article states, the Japanese want to produce a laser of 10 petawatts output, five times that of this leviathan.

I think it should be obvious that this achievement has self-evident military potentials. The real question is, where are the Japanese going to park their big behemoth? on what platform could it be used, and how? Obviously, the size of the laser is prohibitive - at first glance at least - for any mobile platform save perhaps for a very large ship or aircraft. And of course, there are the usual problems of turning such achievements into practical and viable weapons platforms.
But as we all know, the Japanese are master engineers, masters of optics (obviously), and master miniaturizers...
See you on the flip side...
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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

8 Comments

  1. ddd333 on August 14, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    According to a google translation of this Romanian article http://m.puterea.ro/economie/exclusiv-zeci-de-cercetatori-straini-angajati-la-magurele-118058.html Romania will have the worlds most powerful laser by 2018. As far as to some of what it will be used for (from the translation):

    The laser will be subsequently used in the medical field for the production of anti-cancer therapies accelerators. Based on research in Magurele, specialists will be able to change and improve the structure of the material, be it glass, plastic or metal, and all objects around us could be of better quality.

    Also, nuclear physics pillar will help to detect terrorists. Customs officers will be able radiography containers that X-rays do not penetrate And researchers estimate that in 50 years, the radius will neutralize radioactive waste.

    ——–

    What do they mean by “improve the structure of material”? Could this mean somehow being able to (eventually) mix and match and rearrange matter on the subatomic level?



    • moxie on August 14, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      Nonlinear optical frequency conversion..maybe



  2. paul52 on August 8, 2015 at 12:32 am

    The real question is, where are the Japanese going to park their big behemoth?.

    You answered the question in your opening statement ie,

    Remember that story about Japan wanting to girdle the Moon with microwave collectors and beam power to the Earth? Well, they’re also building lasers with huge power output



  3. NoGreyAliens on August 5, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    They are planning on putting a laser on the MOON. Perfect platform to fire a laser at anything threatening earth (or for offensive purposes as well). Giza reported on this before. But the Japanese have been talking “Moon lasers” for some time. Oh and robots are going to assemble it. Don’t bet against thm. The Axis Powers….sorry I meant the “Japanese” may already have something up there.

    http://www.themarysue.com/japan-lasers-moon-energy/

    http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/12/03/japanese-company-wants-to-send-robots-to-the-moon-to-build-a-laser-to-point-at-earth-to-help-us-of-course/



  4. goshawks on August 5, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    I see lasers as the only (publicly-known) defense against UFOs. Given the UFOs’ reported acceleration ability, much less their ability to ‘wink in-wink out’ of normal space, only a weapon of essentially-instantaneous delivery-time would have a chance at a ‘hit’. Hence, all the international emphasis on larger and more-powerful lasers. (Portability will come after the basic science is proven.)

    What I don’t think our defense types have really-thought-out is that UFOs have also demonstrated that their occupants can read the minds of those gazing at them, responding in a friendly or a provocative manner. Having a huge laser to fire at UFOs doesn’t really do any good if the UFO crew has ‘foreknowledge’ that you are about to take a shot…



  5. loisg on August 5, 2015 at 10:58 am

    As it stands now, that thing seems impractical against any earth foe, as moving it into any position would probably require too much time to be of any use. However, if that thing was pointed into space against some incoming object that was not deviating much from its trajectory, that would make a very powerful weapon. Could it be used against asteroids? Or do they perhaps have some other object in mind? Just what have they found at those huge observatories, like the one in Arizona?



  6. Aridzonan_13 on August 5, 2015 at 9:08 am

    The $4.4T MIA from DOD is the Sword of Damacles that hangs over all terrestrials’ heads. I would love to know what the NE Navy has in it’s arsenal and more importantly, what’s powering it. I’m sure all of the nations that have US military bases inside their borders would love to do what Japan is doing.



  7. marcos toledo on August 5, 2015 at 9:04 am

    Are the Japanese sending a signal it will be able to strike back at the USA in any future dispute between them. And they are also cease being the USA toady in Asia anymore.



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